CREEPY

The Adoration fo Jenna Fox
by Mary E. Pearson

Okay, this is a perfect example of not judging a book by it's cover! I never imagined the depth of this story. The cover made me think of E.L. Konisburg's Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place or City of Beasts by Isable Allende. WRONG! The Adoration of Jenna Fox is a biomedical creepy thriller. Well...maybe thriller isn't exactly the right word...how about thought-provoking and spine-tingling story...at least it was for me.

In a future America, biomedical life-saving advances are possible but illegal and antibiotics no longer ward off illness and infection. The governemnt has established an ethics board to set guidelines on medical advances and life-saving treatments. This is the world Jenna Fox re-enters after over a year-long coma. She remembers very little of her life prior to her accident. Fortunately her parents have annual compilations of Jenna's life on disc. As her memory slowly returns, Jenna naturally begins to ask questions. How is it she surivived? What happened to her friends? Why has her family abruptly moved to California? Why can't she access anything about her accident on the Net? What is her mother hiding in a closet? Why does her grandmother dislike her? As Jenna pieces together answers, her very existance comes to question.

This book truly makes one think about the ethics of scientific advances. Without giving away to much of the plot, ask yourself if 90% of your body is dead, would you still want to live? This is the moral dilemma of Jenna Fox.